Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies, 4th Edition - Softcover

Schmuller, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119271150 ISBN 13: 9781119271154

Publisher: For Dummies, 2016

Synopsis

There's nothing random about it—this is the book on statistical analysis with Excel

Stunned by statistics? Exhausted by Excel? Relax! Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies, 4th Edition shows you how to use the world's most popular spreadsheet program to crunch numbers and interpret statistics—even if you've never taken a statistics or advanced math course. In no time, you'll learn to use Excel to create and translate statistics in everyday life, understand common statistical terms, and improve your classroom or professional skills.

Statistics has a reputation for being a challenging, math-intensive pursuit—but it doesn't have to make your palms sweat. Using a minimum of equations and assuming no prior knowledge of statistics or Excel, this hands-on guide cuts through the jargon and shows you how to make sense of formulas and functions, charts and PivotTables, samples and normal distributions, probabilities and related distributions, trends and correlations, and much more.

• Use Excel's tools to analyze and understand data
• Apply statistical analysis to predict trends and make decisions
• Interpret sales figures, gambling odds, and sports stats
• Develop a grading curve or medical correlations

Forget the mumbo jumbo! This guide shows you that statistical analysis with Excel can be easy, fun, and useful!

About this title

From the Back Cover

Learn all of Excel's statistical tools

Test your hypotheses and draw conclusions

Use Excel to give meaning to your data

Use Excel to interpret stats

Statistical analysis with Excel is incredibly useful—and this book shows you that it can be easy, too! You'll discover how to use Excel's perfectly designed tools to analyze and understand data, predict trends, make decisions, and more. Tackle the technical aspects of Excel and start using them to interpret your data!

Inside...

• Covers Excel 2016 for Windows® & Mac® users
• Check out new Excel stuff
• Make sense of worksheets
• Create shortcuts
• Tool around with analysis
• Use Quick Statistics
• Graph your data
• Work with probability
• Handle random variables

About the Author

Joseph Schmuller, PhD, is a Research Scholar at the University of North Florida. He is a former member of the American Statistical Association and has taught statistics at the undergraduate, honors undergraduate, and graduate levels.

Edition details

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1119271150
• ISBN 13: 9781119271154
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 552